Polychaeta name details
original description
Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ page(s): 540; note: Quatrefages used "morchii" without an umlaut, and without an o slash. Also Morch was Danish, not German, thus "moerchii" is incorrect. [details]
additional source
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. page(s): 572; note: Listing as indeterminable. Hartman correctly used "Morchii" without an accented 'o' [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
ten Hove, Harry A. (1970). Serpulinae (Polychaeta) from the Caribbean: I - The genus <i>Spirobranchus</i>. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 32: 1-57, plates I-V., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506140 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated, but clearly for honoring the well-known biologist Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch (also seen as Mørch when using the Scandinavian o-slash character. Mørch was Danish. [details]
Spelling Quatrefage used "morchii" without an umlaut, and without an o slash. Also Morch was Danish, not German, thus "moerchii", the spelling formerly used in WoRMS is doubly incorrect (Code article 32.5.2.1). Informally Quatrefages used "Cymospire de Mörch, but formally he used C. morchii. The "moerchii" spelling has (almost?) no usage in print. Bush (1904: 178) for example used Spirobranchus mörchi (Quatrefages) (incorrect for the accent, and for the single i). [details]
Type locality Australia. Quatrefages recorded the locality as "Nlle-Hollande", presumably a French usage (Nouvelle) of the Dutch Nieuw Holland, English New Holland, historical European names for Australia. [details]
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